Meghan Markle Texted Patrick J. Adams About ‘Suits’ Podcast

Patrick J. Adams doesn’t regularly keep in touch with Meghan Markle, but the Duchess of Sussex contacted her former costar recently, and the actor is feeling the love.

The Suits star, 43, replied to fans’ comments and questions on a Reddit thread on Sunday, Oct. 6, including a pointed question about how his relationship has changed with Markle, 43, since she left the show in 2018 and married Prince Harry.

“Is it weird now that your costar is now royalty? Are you still in touch?” a fan asked, and Adams admitted that he and Markle “are not really in touch” as he clarified that she “leads a very different life now for obvious and important reasons.”

However, after hearing the news that Adams and Sarah Rafferty were launching a rewatch podcast for the beloved series, the actor said Markle reached out.

“Upon hearing about the podcast, I got a lovely text, saying how excited she was for us and asking how she could help in any way,” Adams wrote.

He said it was “so lovely to still have that kind of support and friendship after so many years apart.”

Markle and Adams’ characters — Rachel Zane and Mike Ross, respectively — were love interests on the show and ended up getting married onscreen. In the second episode of his and Rafferty’s Sidebar: A Suits Watch Podcast, Adams recalled working with Markle even before the pilot for Suits.

He revealed that they had “done a pilot before” but it didn’t get picked up, so they “never saw each other again” until they were called in for a Suits chemistry read.

“I think just knowing each other and getting to calm down and not have those nerves of just getting to know one another really helped that chemistry read,” Adams said. “We had an easygoing thing when we went into that room.”

He also recalled that Markle was a shoo-in right off the bat for the role. “And it was pretty clear that she was gonna get the part from the minute we did the chemistry read. It was just so much easier than it was with anybody else — she crushed it and she crushes it in the show.”

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Suits is available to stream on Netflix.